Correct me if I'm wrong, but the subtext of your post is:
It's normal for nations to try and influence the election cycles of other nations in order to benefit from policy changes made by their prospective winner. We are crying wolf about Russia when this is a much bigger phenomenon.
Of course, the United States is also guilty of this. In fact, the CIA invented modern tactics of influencing elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/s...do-it-too.html
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Loch K. Johnson, the dean of American intelligence scholars, who began his career in the 1970s investigating the C.I.A. as a staff member of the Senate’s Church Committee, says Russia’s 2016 operation was simply the cyber-age version of standard United States practice for decades, whenever American officials were worried about a foreign vote. We’ve been doing this kind of thing since the C.I.A. was created in 1947,” said Mr. Johnson, now at the University of Georgia. “We’ve used posters, pamphlets, mailers, banners — you name it. We’ve planted false information in foreign newspapers. We’ve used what the British call ‘King George’s cavalry’: suitcases of cash.”
“I’m not in any way justifying what the Russians did in 2016,” Mr. Levin said. “It was completely wrong of Vladimir Putin to intervene in this way. That said, the methods they used in this election were the digital version of methods used both by the United States and Russia for decades: breaking into party headquarters, recruiting secretaries, placing informants in a party, giving information or disinformation to newspapers.”
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